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So I’m back in NYC after an exciting and productive time at Maker Faire San Mateo and an all-too-short stopover with family in Jerseyville. It’s great to be back in the city though and I’m excited to hit the ground running on Tuesday, with tons of post-ITP opportunity. Welcome back to the real world.

Incidentally, this is my first mobile post through Flickr. I hadn’t exactly found a great motivation to join the Flickr devotees prior to this, but we’ll see if it draws me in.

Look Mom, I’m a homeowner.

..ojO..

Today, Yahoo! Research Berkley opened the doors on what is sure to be another great product. Zurfer enables users to view gazillions of photos from their Flickr feed oh so easily. One of the inherent problems with previous attempts, like the Flickr mob…

Sitting in the parking lot of a panda express somewhere between Morgan Hill and Gilroy, the past few days have been exhilirating and exhausting. My car was broken into, my ipod and camera were stolen along with all the pictures I recently took at the Maker Faire in San Mateo California. (which is why I [...]

Brent Green (nervousfilms.com) in the midst of an urgent and inspired performance with his group from Pennsylvania, accompanying his beautiful short film, Hadacol Christmas, at Maker Faire 2007. Watch the films here.

It wasn’t a clean end, but it was a pretty decent sendoff. My coworkers will prolly laugh at me, but I’m near tears. Three years, this show had me hooked from the stalking outside the Camelot to an uncertain, what would have happened moment in the rain. It was a show that respected its viewers (some might say too much). Bonus points went out to those who paid close attention. Keeping up with Veronica, or skipping ahead of her, was a thrill. Few other storytellers craft that much detail into anything (I haven’t seen anything like it since the Animaniacs really). VM has really changed the way I look at TV. 3 is a good number, it’s my favorite number actually. I couldn’t imagine any less, but I wouldn’t have minded s’more. Here’s hoping VM pulls a Nancy Drew.

And Harry Potter is ending too. Frak. Wait…

Yay… I am pooped but I think this is going to be a great class … oh and it is freezing in the lab.. .argh… I should be posting links to mys tudents’ projects soon

Tonight and tonight only I’ll be giving a brief presentation of the MutherBoard project at Mobile Mondays New York open mic night. The 5-7 min talk will focus primarily of the mobile component but will go over the general concept behind the project as …

Hello again world.
I havent posted anything since the Tuned Stairs kicked in at center pompidou last october. In fact I havent uploaded anything to flickr either! Not to mention the fact that I also haven’t updated my portfolio. (oi)
So: its been over six months, and I definitely am well beyond making [...]

…on the ORB!

Jimmy and his team were great. We shot a short interview which should air on Jimmy Kimmel Live! within the next couple of weeks. Jimmy said he “felt like the Mona Lisa” and that his mug on the ORB was “the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen”. MAKE!

I have heard that in China the environment and whatever it may throw at us is secondary to progress, it is believed and in fact practiced that human innovation will always overcome that which may happen. I have heard this surprisingly from many people …

And look what happened . . . . . . . . but you knew that already.

So my landlord has had a change of heart I’m not sure if it’s our certified letter with legal language stating his responsiblity to try to re-rent our place, the fact of June rent coming or that he is buying time to talk to his lawyer who wrote up the illegal lease lingo in the first place.

Drama postponed. Meanwhile, how do I find someone to rent our place when I want to run screaming from it?

i just did a 5-day fast. i’ve never done this before. crazy. went up to a cabin in a little village outside the city. no food, no internet for 5 days. the local villagers probably thought i had totally lost it, but they were politely curious. discovered it was more a mental test than anything else. it’s bizarre to counter one’s natural instinct for survival by just deciding not to eat. the first

Edit: Damn. I wish I could trash talk tv with my mom…

ps. This is *the* worst week ever!

So this is wild.

Closing next week. Big project finished. Bonus?–Hopefully. Landlord gone mad and trying to kick us out by next Tuesday.

Wild.

I know you can’t give a 7 day eviction notice, but the fact that our landlord thinks he can make us leave and pay the next 3 months rent and keep our deposit makes me wonder if he’s sane.

Wild.

…here’s hoping the bad luck streak ends with a last minute save of VM? Yeah, I know. This week sucks.

I, Kate Hartman, presented my Master’s thesis.

The shows get better and better every year. This one featured a slew of eco-minded projects: BioBronc, Solar Jewelry, Solar Time (pictured here with my parents ), BikeJus, Device Power Monitoring, Blue Phoenix, and the debut of Sustainable ITP - a showcase of student and faculty work in the program’s sustainable practices initiative.
Solar Time, [...]

This comes to you from a quiet hotel lounge on the east side of Denver on our way to the MAKE Magazine Maker Faire, where we will join some 400 makers (including a handful of ITP’ers such as Andrew Schneider, Team Botanicalls, Giana Gonzalez, Tom Igoe, and last but not least, FabInfo instructors Toru Hasegawa and Mark Collins) with ORB and ultraORB in hand and ready to exhibit. A few tens of thousands of attendees are expected of all ages and all walks of life and I’m expecting a fantastic time sharing our work with the curious as well as exploring the rest of the exhibits. I’m also slated to give a talk/demo on Thursday’s Maker Day, a day of events held specifically for the exhibitors and other presenters and organizers.

Maker Faire is held at the San Mateo Fairgrounds in San Mateo California and is open to the public on May 19-20. Advance tickets are $15 for adults, $10 for students 21 and under, and $5 for children 12 and under ($20/$15/$5 respectively on-site). Hope to see you there.

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A few photographs from the ITP Spring Show 2007 after-after-party on Rocio’s and my roof.

A good night.

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I’m interested in exploring ways in which we can physically move through text. This is something that is inherently a part of reading a book or newspaper - there is a tactile sense of how much you have consumed and how much you have left to go. But this is something that we get further [...]

Clips from one last roof party on Rivington… 8am.

Jean-Baptiste Labrune sent this link from Leah Buechley, who does cool things with fabric and electronics.

If you missed its last night tonight is your last chance to see the ITP Sprig Show 2007. The MutherBoard project was well received. If you can’t make the show and didn’t see the presentation last week, I’ve put together a temporary site for thoes who c…

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Hi! Quick post, here:

I’ll be updating the 3001 project page later today, so come back by if you’d like to see more media and learn more about how the project works. (The project is a part of the ITP Spring Show 2007.)

Until then, you can check out a video of my presentation at the ITP thesis 2007 site.

Thanks for visiting! Please send me an e-mail if you’d like to know more or have some feedback.

Wow, the ITP Show just keeps getting better and better. Haven’t had a chance to really go through the projects yet, since I’ve been docent for my Strange Attractor.
Rhizome calls Strange Attractor a highlight and it’s nice to be in the company of the other projects they mention! Been very happy with the [...]

Wow, the ITP Show just keeps getting better and better. Haven’t had a chance to really go through the projects yet, since I’ve been docent for my Strange Attractor.
Rhizome calls Strange Attractor a highlight and it’s nice to be in the company of the other projects they mention! Been very happy with the [...]

There was a great writeup in the New York Times about ITP this past Sunday. The core of ITP is its open and collaborative atmosphere.
I’m quoted in the article Interactive design blooms in NYU hallways on CNET a few weeks ago. They also quote Clay as calling ITP “the center for the study [...]

There was a great writeup in the New York Times about ITP this past Sunday. The core of ITP is its open and collaborative atmosphere.
I’m quoted in the article Interactive design blooms in NYU hallways on CNET a few weeks ago. They also quote Clay as calling ITP “the center for the study [...]

Just for old times’ sake…